Abaddon

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> The Loner or Abaddon is an Entity with an archaic strategy.

Description

Abaddon was smaller than the Thinker or the Warrior, and had a different form.<ref name="I26 e1"/> It still held a vast amount of information.<ref name="I29 e3">They meet violently. As their ancestors did, they share with one another in a violent fashion, crashing together, breaking shard from shard.

This entity knows right away that there is a wealth of information here. But there must be cooperation, information given for information. - Excerpt from Interlude 29</ref>

Abilities

Abaddon traveled using a different means to the Thinker and the Warrior,<ref name="I26 e1">A member of their own species, approaching. It was smaller, took a different form. It used different means to travel. - Excerpt from Interlude 26</ref> mainly through propulsion rather than the spatial warping that the others did.<ref name="I29 e2">The third entity travels more through momentum than by insinuation. It expends vast quantities of power to change course. - Excerpt from Interlude 29</ref>

Its divergent evolution was such that communication was initially difficult between itself and the Thinker entity.<ref name="I29 e1"/> The creatures have almost incalculable processing power.

Thanks to Abaddon's contribution Eden was able to understand concepts more intricate than simple conflict.<ref name="I29 e5">This entity sees new possibilities, now. Not simply conflict, but philosophy and psychology. Imagination. It is in these new patterns of thought that it can see a possibility for the future. - Excerpt from Interlude 29</ref>

History

Deep Background

The Entities first arose on a gray, silty world, which they destroyed and rode the explosion out to new worlds.<ref name="I26">Interlude 26</ref>

Abaddon's line had remained a singular traveler of space and it had visited fewer worlds than the Warrior Entity or the Thinker Entity<ref name="I26 e2">Its ancestors had traveled a different path, easily hundreds of cycles ago, before the entities had begun traveling in pairs. This new arrival had encountered different worlds, less worlds, and it had developed differently. - Excerpt from Interlude 26</ref>

Background

Sensing Eden and Zion on their way to earth, Abaddon asked to exchange information, in the form of shards, with them.<ref name="I29 e1">Agreement, this entity is distracted in responding. It is receiving another broadcast.

A third.

The communication is almost alien, a member of their species, but long distant, from countless cycles ago.

It hesitates, then signals its own location.

Exchange. Meet.

The response is garbled. Takes time to analyze. - Excerpt from Interlude 29</ref> Eden accepted engaging in an exchange of shards.<ref name="I26 e3">The lesser one crossed paths with the entity’s counterpart. For a duration, they intertwined, meeting through multiple realities, their bodies rubbing and crushing against one another.

A sharing of details, a wealth of knowledge, from hundreds of cycles. A sacrifice of the same.

The lesser one moves on, bloated with new shards and knowledge, but the counterpart flounders. - Excerpt from Interlude 26</ref> The Loner exchanged several shards, notably its eye, wings, teeth, and ability to step between worlds.<ref>Before any of this, all of this, she had been the forward-looking eye of something greater and grander, a lonely being in and of itself. That great and grand thing had crossed paths with a pair of others.

Take my eye, it had said. Take my wings. Take my teeth. Take my ability to step between worlds.

The pair, in turn, had made their own offerings, as much as they were in a hurry. - Excerpt from Interlude 18.z II</ref> Because of this Eden became distracted and crashed into several earths.

Abaddon then continued on to its destination on, presumably, the opposite end of the universe.<ref name="I29 e4">They break apart. The third entity continues its path, moving to a distant star, its path perpendicular to the pair’s. - Excerpt from Interlude 29</ref>

Impact

Contessa's shard has an unique ability to maintain some degree of autonomy while not being explicitly linked to any entity, which is probably a residual effect of the unfinished transfer.<ref>It looked at the female, and it saw a shard that wasn’t its own, but wasn’t dead. - Excerpt from Interlude 26</ref><ref>She stood utterly alone and completely still. For all intents and purposes, she was the only one of her kind. [...] Every other gift lay dead and disconnected, fruit on the branches of a dead tree, with little in the way of parting words or guidance. Every other connection to the Loner was gone. The Pair too distant to reach. - Excerpt from Radiation 18.z</ref>

Doctor Mother mentions that the shards Eden obtained during the exchange, a "foreign element", tended to yield powers without standard restrictions when administered to Cauldron subjects.<ref>“There is a foreign agent in them.  The entity altered each power he granted to give them certain restrictions.  No power would be able to truly affect him, no power would cross the boundaries he set in dimension, or in affecting other powers.  There are no alterations to the elements in these, only to the accompanying abilities, or complimentary powers.  The powers granted from these vials don’t cause the recipients to forget the visions they see.  Eidolon was one such case.  The extreme deviant cases on the special containment floor make up much of the remainder.” - Excerpt from Venom 29.7</ref> These may have been unincorporated shards from Abaddon.

Trivia

• Abaddon is a place<ref>“It’s not even a living thing anymore,” Golem said. “It’s more like a place, a garden or something.”
  
  “Amusing you say that,” the Number Man said. “We had a discussion with Lisette, the woman who proposed she could control him, and she said that the original name was Zion. He named himself after a place as well. We have theories on why-” - Excerpt from Venom 29.8</ref> mentioned in scripture where things are destroyed in the underworld.
• The name "Abaddon" is not used in the text or chapter tags, but has been used by Wildbow.<ref>Abbadon, heading to a non-Earth planet. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref>
• Abaddon would have made an appearance in another quest after PRT Quest had concluded.<ref name="R1">7. or the last continent, Antartica, well, imagine staring out at the Aurora Borealis, a shadow passes over a star. Abbadon, heading to a non-Earth planet. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

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